How to customize module name for Sphinx

Question

I am a newbie as far as Sphinx is concern. My project structure is as follow:

• argparse_actions/
  • argparse_actions/
    • __init__.py
    • folder_actions.py
    • ip_actions.py
  • doc/
    • _build/
    • index.rst ==> This is the starting point, home page, or root doc.
    • and more...

__init__.py looks like this:

from folder_actions import *
from ip_actions import *

folder_actions.py looks like this:

'''
Folder Actions
==============

This module implements some reusable custom actions.

.. autoclass:: FolderExistsAction
.. autoclass:: FolderCreateAction
   :members:

'''

# The rest of the code

The generate HTML document looks fine except for this part:

class folder_actions.FolderCreateAction( ... )

I know that the folder_actions module prefix is correct, but I want to change it to use the package name instead, like this:

class argparse_actions.FolderCreateAction( ... )

Is there a way for me to achieve this?

Update

• The root document is in doc/index.rst

• If I move the docstring from folder_actions.py to __init__.py, then the doc will look like this:

  class __init__.FolderCreateAction( ... )
  

• FYI, my project is now on BitBucket

Update 2

I don't know why my changes are not pushed to BitBucket, but that irrelevant. please take a look at the same project, pushed to GitHub. I appreciate your help, mzjn.

Answer 1

After a few months of hiatus, I finally figured out the solution: by adding the following line to the docstring of folder_actions.py and ip_action.py modules:

.. module:: argparse_actions

Preferably, this line should be the first line of the module docstring.

Answer 2

Refer this answer which provides a solution.

You can modify your __init__.py file to:

from folder_actions import *
from ip_actions import *

__all__ = ['FolderCreateAction']

This lets Sphinx know you want FolderCreateAction to be part of the public API for the package, and will render it is argparse_actions.FolderCreateAction in the documentation.